“We are not done yet.” Anonymous warns of more SABC website hacks

They've targeted everyone from presidents to the Islamic State, but it's the SABC that now finds itself at the mercy of the Anonymous hacktivists.

Anonymous launched an attack on the SABC over the weekend, leaving some of its sites down and others severely slowed down, but the group isn’t done with the controversial state broadcaster yet.

Right now the SABC is a psychological manipulation propaganda mouthpiece protecting a corrupt man tearing down SA https://t.co/pvuGe754cA

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 12, 2016

Anonymous Africa announced on their Twitter account that they would attack the SABC, following new regulations that essentially censor the national broadcaster from reporting the news in an open and honest manner.

Yesterday Anonymous Tweeted: “Attacks against all SABC entities now underway.”

“You have heard of the Arab Spring? Well now its time for the #African Summer!” Another Tweet read.

We will stop the attacks at SABC (for now) at 4pm. We are not done yet, lots of action coming. Things are going to get wild!

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 12, 2016

They added that they had carried out a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack on the SABC; essentially flooding the broadcaster’s website servers with thousands of requests that eventually disrupt their sites.

The SABC’s Kaizer Kganyago condemned the attacks and called the Anonymous hacktivists “cowards.”

“It is a serious matter that we are not taking lightly,” he told Fin24.

Anonymous Africa doesn’t seem to be in any mood to stop the attacks:

Right now the SABC is a psychological manipulation propaganda mouthpiece protecting a corrupt man tearing down SA https://t.co/pvuGe754cA